The White House will release the full electronic surveillance report from President Barack Obama's task force on Wednesday, press secretary Jay Carney said.

White House to release NSA task force report Wednesday

By REID J. EPSTEIN

12/18/2013 12:57 PM EST

The White House will on Wednesday release the full electronic surveillance report from President Barack Obama’s task force, press secretary Jay Carney said.

The White House had said it would release the report, which carries 46 recommendations for Obama in response to revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in January, after Obama decided which recommendations to follow.

Obama received the report Dec. 13.

“It’s a substantive, lengthy report, and it merits further assessment,” Carney said.

Obama met Wednesday morning with the surveillance task force, known formally as the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies.

“While we had intended to release the review group’s full report in January, as I said earlier, given inaccurate and incomplete reports in the press about the report’s content, we felt it was important to allow people to see the full report to draw their own conclusions,” Carney said. “For that reason, we will be doing that this afternoon.”